Podcast appearances and mentions of Walker Art Gallery

Summer school holidays are here, and this is the perfect time to explore the UK with your family without breaking the bank.  Watch YouTube video: https://youtu.be/IWMz3-7LuT0 Here are 20 free activities to enjoy together: Visit the British Museum in London. Explore the Natural History Museum. Take a stroll in Hyde Park. Discover the wonders of the National Gallery. Enjoy a day out at the beach. Hike in the Lake District. Wander through Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden. Explore the historic streets of York. Visit the Tate Modern in London. Have a picnic in Richmond Park. Explore the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Walk along Hadrian's Wall. Discover street art in Bristol. Visit the Scottish National Gallery. Enjoy a day at the V&A Museum. Explore the beautiful Kew Gardens. Walk through the scenic Peak District. Visit Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery. Explore the stunning landscapes of Snowdonia. Discover the history at the Imperial War Museum. Could you do more with your money and finances? Join my free webinar, "3 Steps to Money Management and Unlocking Financial Freedom," to learn how to get control of your money, invest wisely, and achieve financial freedom.  Join me online on Wednesday at 7:00 PM. Places are limited, so register now below to avoid disappointment. Register Here - https://bit.ly/3QPp8IH #FamilyFun #FreeActivities #UKSummer #MoneyManagement #FinancialFreedom #Investing #WealthCreation #Budgeting #FamilyAdventures

Lifting stress and learning those slick tricks - it's time to put the art in a room! Episode 4 - We're building some momentum now, it's about time we started thinking about how the art is going to look in the room! This episode we talk to Ann Bukantas, former Head of Fine Art at National Museums Liverpool, former Curator of Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and Curator of many modern and contemporary art exhibitions at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool including exhibitions by Ben Johnson, Wolfgang Tillmans, John Kirby, Robyn Woolston, David Hockney, Catherine Opie, Lubaina Himid and Sean Scully. Curation, what's it all about? Listen on! Tune in every Friday for the next step in our guide, tips and tricks to bring your creative idea to life and to learn about the industry from some of the best!

The Legend of Ned Ludd - writer Joe Ward Munrow and director Jude Christian discuss their new play at the Liverpool Everyman theatre which explores the changing nature of work over the centuries and around the world in the the face of automation.The shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction was announced today - journalist Jamie Klingler assesses the selection.As the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool prepares to show off its latest acquisitions, curator Kate O'Donoghue explains what the their new Degas and Monet works will bring to their collection.Artist Mohammad Barrangi discusses his new installation - One Night, One Dream, Life in the Lighthoue - at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery in Leeds University, inspired by his residency at the university's Special Collections. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Por que as revoluções sempre acabaram gerando governos mais tirânicos do que aqueles contra os quais os revolucionários supostamente lutavam? Por que os parlamentos modernos deixaram de ser meios que dificultam a expansão do poder? Para entender essas e outras questões, ouça o episódio 41 do Ordem Natural Podcast, o sétimo da nossa série sobre O Poder, de Bertrand de Jouvenel. Curta nossas páginas e nos sigam no: Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ordem.Natural.Podcast Instagram: @ordemnaturalpodcast Telegram: https://t.me/ordem_natural_podcast Twitter: @naturalordem Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/ordem_natural Imagem: Véspera da Batalha de Edge Hill, 1642, Charles Landseer, 1799–1879, Walker Art Gallery. Trilha sonora:⁣⁣ Antonio Vivaldi, “La Notte", Concerto em G menor, RV 439.⁣⁣ Felix Mendelssohn, “Variations Sérieuses”, Op. 54, solo para piano.⁣⁣ #anticomunismo #conservadorismo #Monarquia #filosofiapolítica #CiênciaPolítica #LulaLadrão #CensuraNão #familiatradicional #Cristianismo #RevoluçãoFrancesa #AtivismoJudicial #Positivismo #cientificismo #Marxismo #AbortoNão #totalitarismo #SOSCuba #DireitaConservadora #DeusPátriaFamília #ForaForodeSP #MovimentoMonárquico #podcast #ForaPT

Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street, on writing a survival guide for new actors- An Actor's Alphabet. What happens when football is taken from the pitch and put on the canvas? Nick Ahad is joined by the curators of three football-inspired exhibitions: Art of the Terraces at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, plus The Art of the Football Scarf and It's The Hope That Keeps Us Here at OOF Gallery in Tottenham Hotspur's stadium. Chornoblydorf, a new opera that looks at a post-apocalyptic world, opens this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Co-composer Illia Razumeiko joins Front Row to talk about the optimism behind this dark production. The Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Nathan Queeley-Dennis, on getting the top prize with his debut play, Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz, about a young Black man on a journey of self-discovery with the help of his barber and Beyoncé's lyrics. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu Image: Square Gogh by Ross Muir, on display in the exhibition Art of the Terraces at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool

Sarah Dwyer (b. 1974, Ireland) is a painter who lives and works in London. Drawing is at the heart of her process, often combined with painting, printmaking, and sculpture, resulting in reimaginings of the familiar through exuberant color palettes and lively approaches to mark-making. Incorporating both figurative and abstract imagery, her dynamic compositions are the result of processing her own surroundings and the human day-to-day experience, in addition to an indulgence in our desire for play. Surfaces, in turn, retain traces of process and development within their own archive and present the viewer with a navigable visual history. Dwyer earned a Master's in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2004 after an MFA from Staffordshire University in 2001. Her work has most recently been exhibited at Fabian Lang Gallery, Zurich; PiArtworks, London; Pigeon Park, Manor Place, London; in three solo shows at Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; Hair & Nails Gallery, MN; Rochester Art Center, MN; Bloomberg Space, London, UK; Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo, JP; Jane Lombard Gallery NY, NY; Fe McWilliam Gallery, NIR; Royal College of Art, London, UK; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, IE. Cockshutt Lane 2022 150 x 120 cm 59 x47.2 inches, Oil and Pastel on Linen Fink 2022 100 x 75cm 39.4 x 29.5 inches Oil and pastel on linen Thrum 2022 150 x 120 cm 59 x47.2 inches, Oil and Pastel on Linen  

O que é felicidade? Podemos nos realizar vivendo a nossa vida aparentemente banal, ou precisamos empreender grandes feitos para sermos grandes pessoas? De que forma podemos contribuir para um "mundo melhor" sem cair em devaneios revolucionários? Neste episódio do Ordem Natural Podcast, quarto do nosso quadro Inventário da Cultura, analisamos o grande clássico do cinema americano A Felicidade Não se Compra. Curtam nossas páginas e nos sigam no: Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ordem.Natural.Podcast Instagram: @ordemnaturalpodcast Telegram: https://t.me/ordem_natural_podcast Twitter: @naturalordem Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/ordem_natural Imagem: One of the Family. Frederick George Cotman (1850–1920). Walker Art Gallery. Trilha sonora: Antonio Vivaldi, “La Notte", Concerto em G menor, RV 439. Felix Mendelssohn, “Variations Sérieuses”, Op. 54, solo para piano. #cinema #felicidade #liberdade #cultura #conservadorismo #filosofia #história #literatura #anticomunismo #olavotemrazao #conservador #conservadora #conservadores #direitaconservadora #familiatradicional #direita #comunismonao #comunismomata #comunismojamais #filme #clássicos #classicos

John Blanke was a trumpet player of African descent employed by the English Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII in the early 1500s. He's the only black person of the Tudor period for whom we have both a name and a picture – in the Westminster Tournament Roll of 1511, currently on display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool – but he was by no means the only person of African heritage living in England at that time. Lucie Skeaping uncovers the life and world of John Blanke and the music he would have known, in conversation with expert on diversity in Tudor England, Dr Onyeka Nubia.

"I have no relation or friend" - words spoken by Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. That story, alongside Georg Büchner's expressionist classic Woyzeck, has inspired the new production for English National Ballet put together by Akram Khan. He joins poet Hannah Lowe, who's been reflecting on her experiences of teaching London teenagers; Tash Aw, who explores his Chinese and Malaysian heritage, and his status as insider and outsider in memoir Strangers on a Pier; and New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck, who's been looking at the images of music hall performance and circus life in the paintings of Walter Sickert (1860 - 1942) and Laura Knight (1877-1970) for a conversation exploring different ideas about belonging. Shahidha Bari hosts. Creature: a co-production between English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen opens at Sadler's Wells on 23rd Sept and then tours internationally. Hannah Lowe's new collection from Bloodaxe is called The Kids. Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw is published by Fourth Estate. Sickert: A Life in Art is on show at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool from 18 Sep 2021—27 Feb 2022. It's the largest retrospective in the UK for 30 years. Laura Knight: A Panoramic View is on show at the Milton Keynes Gallery from 9 Oct 2021 - 20 Feb 2022. Eleanor Lybeck is an academic on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council called New Generation Thinkers which turns research into radio. She is a lecturer in Irish Literature at the University of Liverpool and explored her own family history and her great grandfather's links with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in a short Sunday Feature for Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pqsqr Producer: Tim Bano Image: Akram Khan Credit: Jean-Louis Fernandez You might also be interested in our exploration of language and belonging in which the writers Preti Taneja, Michael Rosen, Guy Gunaratne, Deena Mohamed, Dina Nayeri and Momtaza Mehri compare notes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006fh9

Photo: Dante and Beatrice is a painting dated 1883 by the artist Henry Holiday that is on display in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England.  (Meeting at the New Bridge?).CBS Eye on the World with John BatchelorCBS Audio Network@BatchelorshowAmericans are most welcome to Italy starting today. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-05-17/us-airlines-add-covid-tested-flights-to-italy-as-country-reopens-to-tourists

In episode three of the National Museums Liverpool Podcast, Jane Garvey introduces stories on work, each with their own unique link to the museums and Liverpool. Act One: Transitioning on the Force Detective Sergeant Christian Owens was the first person to transition on Merseyside police and as such has turned his experiences into lessons for forces across the country. In this story he details how difficult it can be to be both trans and a police officer. Act Two: Unemployment on Merseyside Mike (Mick) Jones's huge mural hangs in the People's Republic Gallery at the Museum of Liverpool. It depicts Liverpudlian's fight for the right to work in the 20th Century taking in post-WWI marches as well as Liverpool's lowest ebb, the 1980s. We hear the stories of those who fought for work and those who helped. Act Three: The Sun of Europe Elisabetta Sirani (1638-65) was a 17th Century Baroque artist whose success defied her era in which women were denied academy training. Lead Curator of International Fine Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Kate O'Donoghue, talks us through Sirani's remarkable but tragically short life.    

In this episode I take you through the origins and manifestations of the raised fist salute, which has more recently been associated with the BLM movement. We move on to my conversation with Nicola Green, the artist behind the work ‘In Seven Days’ - a series created from her unprecedented artistic access to Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign trial.Nicola Green is renowned for gaining access to iconic personalities from the worlds of politics, religion, and culture, including collaborations with Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. In 2008 Nicola Green gained artistic access to Obama’s Presidential campaign. She had a front row seat to historic events: from Obama’s DNC nomination speech to Inauguration, Nicola was behind-the-scenes taking photographs, making sketches, and having conversations with press, staff and citizens. I spoke with Nicola about the process of creating this series, and she shares how her own multi race and faith family influences her work.Inspired by her own mixed-heritage and multi-faith family, she creates and preserves religious, social, and cultural heritage for future generations. Recording these events as they happen, and investing thousands of hours of academic and artistic research, she builds and curates substantial archives. In Seven Days is in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington D.C; and in both the International Slavery Museum and The Walker Art Gallery, in LiverpoolShade is produced and hosted by Lou MensahPlease support this work by becoming a Shade PatronFull season music is composed by Brian JacksonMixing & sound design CA DavisThank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season FourSign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris giftNew and existing patrons, simply message Shade privately on social media, along with your address, to claim your gift!Support for this episode comes from Convergence at the South London Gallery See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Linda McCartney discovered photography almost by accident, accompanying a friend to a class in Arizona that would inspire a lifelong passion.She met her husband, who we all know is the Beatle Paul McCartney, while on a photographic assignment and spent their relationship capturing their lives together.An exhibition of her work opened at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool this weekend so we’re launching this new series of the podcast from the show.

In episode 33 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews one of the most groundbreaking, important, and influential artists working in the world today, the Turner-Prize winning artist, LUBAINA HIMID!! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] Known for working in painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, cut-outs, and installations, Himid paints onto a variety of surfaces from ceramic to wood which produce objects with performative potential intended to be encountered in a space.  A tireless champion of marginalised voices, Himid has dedicated her thirty-year-plus career to uncovering silenced histories, to valorise ‘the contribution Black people have made to cultural life in Europe for the past several hundred years’. Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Himid moved to Britain with her mother when she was just four months old. She studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art, and later Royal College of Art. In the 1980s, Lubaina became one of the LEADERS and TRAILBLAZERS of Britain’s Black Arts movement, curating three shows – which we disucss in depth. Living and work in Preston, she is a CBE, a Royal Academician, the winner of the 2017 Turner Prize, and a professor at the University of Central Lancashire; in the collection of the Tate, V&A, Whitworth, Walker Art Gallery, plus more; and has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, Tate St Ives, Chisenhale, and it has just been announced that Lubaina will have a major solo exhibition at Tate Modern in November 2021.  This is really one of the greatest conversations I have EVER had. I am completely in awe at Lubaina and her BRILLIANT work that remains more present than ever. I really hope you enjoy this episode. This episode is sponsored by Alighieri  https://alighieri.co.uk/ @alighieri_jewellery Use the code: TGWA for 10% off!  Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller) Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

In episode 29 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews THREE brilliant guests: African Art specialist, Helene Love-Allotey, art historian and curator-in-training Chloe Austin, and creator of @arthistorytalks, Emi Eleode.  Last week, six exciting young names in art celebrating Black culture took over @thegreatwomenartists Instagram account. To honour this takeover, this episode, as well as last week's, feature interviews with all six women about their practice and work.  And WOW. Were these women were absolutely incredible to speak with. First up we have Helene Love-Allotey who speaks in depth about her love for the great British artist, Lubaina Himid, and her experience visiting Himid's very moving and important exhibition "Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money". Housed at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, this show highlighted how Europe’s wealthy classes spent their money in the 19th century by using enslaved African men and women, which Himid awkwardly and unapologetically portrays in vibrant cut-out sculptures placed amongst the white and male-dominated permanent collection. See more:  https://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/exhibition/lubaina-himid-meticulous-observations-and-naming-money @helenaloveallotey Next up is the great Chloe Austin, a curator-in-training at London's Barbican Centre, and Institute of the International Visual Arts (Iniva), a radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation, in which we speak at length about. We also discuss the institutions' position and reaction to this movement, as well as the three brilliant artists Deborah Findlater, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, and Elsa James.  See more: https://iniva.org/ https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/ https://chloesinternalmonologue.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/black-boxes/ @chloejaaay  And we end with the wonderful Emi Eleode, founder of the Instagram @arthistorytalks, a page that spotlights 4–5 artists from a non-Western country each month. We discuss her own work that plays on art history, her research into the history of dance as a ritual in Brazil, as well as artists Delphine Diallo and Amrita Sher-Gil.  This is one of my favourite episodes EVER of The Great Women Artists Podcast so I hope you enjoy! This episode is sponsored by Alighieri  https://alighieri.co.uk/ @alighieri_jewellery Use the code: TGWA for 10% off!  Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller) https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

Laurence Owen was born in Gloucester and now lives and works in London. . . He completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Royal Academy Schools, London in 2015, and holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall. . . I caught up with Laurence a week or so after the opening of his exhibition Gerund, where Laurence showed a completely new body of work that split across both Zublowicz Collection and Lychee One Galleries in London. . . Recent solo exhibitions include those at Galerie PCP, Paris, And Evelyn Yard, London. . . Group exhibitions include Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi, Somerset House, London, Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, Something Else, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Absent Bodies, OSL Contemporary, Oslo John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

We discuss the exhibition ‘An English Lady’s wardrobe’ at Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool which features a selection from a very large collection of clothes owned by one woman in the first half of the 20th century. See links below. Bassano Studio, Woman modelling bed jacket (1934): https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/520641.html An English lady’s wardrobe, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool (25 October 2019 – 1 March 2020): https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/english-ladys-wardrobe#section--the-exhibition Pauline Rushton, ‘Mrs Tinne’s Wardrobe: A Liverpool Lady’s Clothes 1900-1940’ (National Museums Liverpool 2019): https://shop.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/products/mrs-tinnes-wardrobe-a-liverpool-ladys-clothes-1900-1940

In episode 61 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering portrait photography, photographer's home's and the importance of taking risks and taking care. Plus this week photographer Paul Trevor takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Paul Trevor is known for his photography in the UK's inner-city neighbourhoods, particularly for images made in London and Liverpool since the 1970s. Since picking up the camera at the age of 25, Paul's photographs have been widely published in books, magazines, films and on television.  A storyteller at heart, photography offered tools which he embraced with enthusiasm. Abandoning his job as an accountant, he applied to picture-making the rapid hand-eye coordination he acquired as a teenage table tennis ace. Eager to collaborate with others, in 1973 he co-founded the Exit Photography Group whose joint projects over a decade produced two documentary books and various exhibitions.  In 1975 he helped set up the Half Moon Photography Workshop, an arts centre in London's East End where photography could be produced, exhibited, published and debated and co-edited its influential Camerawork magazine between 1976-80. Between 1973 and 2000 Paul worked on the Eastender Archive, an extensive project which offered a personal record of the changing community near his home in Brick Lane, East London. Several of these photographs were included in the London Street Photography exhibition, at the Museum of London in 2011. His work is motivated by a keen social impulse, and has been exhibited internationally as well as within the UK, including shows at The Photographers' Gallery, London and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. His work is in public and private collections around the world including the Arts Council Collection, British Council and Victoria & Albert Museum. http://paultrevor.com Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. He is currently work on his next documentary film project Woke Up This Morning: The Rock n' Roll Thunder of Ray Lowry. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2019

As two new productions prepare to take on Shakespeare in fresh and unexpected ways, the women behind them - Jeanie O'Hare, creator of new play Queen Margaret, and Jude Christian creator of OthelloMacbeth - discuss developing new dramas from Shakespeare's canon.Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull is a theatre classic that has been produced in many different ways for stage and screen since its premiere in 1896. Now it's been turned into a film with a stellar cast led by Annette Benning. Critic, broadcaster, and playwright Nick Ahad reviews.Artist Leo Fitzmaurice specialises in creating work that aims to get us to look afresh at everyday objects. He's now curating a portrait exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery with a simple but surprising element. He joins Kirsty to discuss the new show, Leo Fitzmaurice: Between You and Me and Everything Else.The multi-award winning classical musician, Alison Balsom, reveals the inspiration behind her career and her love of the trumpet, as part of Front Row's Inspire season..Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Ekene Akalawu.

In this episode Dr Laura-Jane Foley meets Bel Mooney, one of Britain’s most successful journalists and the author of over 25 books. Bel reveals her favourite work of art is a Baroque masterpiece she first encountered as a young child in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool - 'The Virgin and Child in Glory' by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617 - 1682).To comment on the show please write to @laurajanefoley on Twitter and use the hashtag #MyFavouriteWorkOfArtPresented and produced by Dr Laura-Jane FoleyRecorded and edited at Wisebuddah, LondonTitle Music - 'Blue' from Colours by Dimitri Scarlato See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Art Detective Dr Janina Ramirez talks to the Singh twins about the their work and their new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Episode CreditsProducer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to our 17th episode of American Real, where this week our guest is Ben Johnson, a British painter known for his large, detailed cityscapes.While in England, I had the opportunity to enjoy a cup a tea and sit down with the talented artist in his studio – which sits among a few other dwellings within a quaint courtyard. Ben takes us on a two-hour long journey from his native Wales, to London where he studied at the Royal College of Art… he tells us about short stint in New York before eventually settling in London some 5 decades ago. His works have graced the walls of galleries and museums across the world including, the national Gallery in London, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Art Institute of Chicago to name a few. What I liked most about Ben Johnson is his willingness to converse openly about his life and talk about the details of his craft and his incredible works of art, which are Beyond Real.AMERICAN REAL YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/cSFvzc0fbyEWebsite: https://americanreal.tv/episodes/Facebook: https://facebook.com/americanrealtv/Instagram: https://instagram.com/rogerlbrooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rogerbrooks/

With John Wilson. The photographer Rankin is known for his cutting-edge fashion and advertising images, and his celebrity portraits. His new show at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool is called ALIVE: In The Face Of Death, where he has turned his attention to death and mortality. He talks to John about his experience of photographing people as they face the prospect of death. Actor Terence Stamp chooses The Razor's Edge (1946) for Cultural Exchange. Based on Somerset Maugham's novel, it tells the story of an American pilot played by Tyrone Power who, traumatized by his experiences in World War I, sets off to India in search of transcendent meaning in his life. Terence talks about the huge impact this film has had on his own life. Brilliant Adventures is a new play by Alistair McDowall. which won the Judges' Award in the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Set on a Middlesbrough council estate, the play focuses on the relationship between two brothers, one of whom has built a time machine. Writer Charlotte Keatley reviews. The new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, is the French duo's fourth long-player after a seven year silence. Regarded as dance music pioneers, on this record Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are joined by other luminaries of the music world including Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder. Writer and DJ Dave Haslam gives his verdict. Producer Ekene Akalawu.

With Kirsty Lang. The TV drama series Call the Midwife follows the working and personal lives of a team of midwives working in east London in the 1950s and is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth. The second series starts on Sunday on BBC One. Writer and reviewer Dreda Say Mitchell reflects on its appeal, and whether it can sustain its success. Ruthie Henshall is an actress, singer and dancer and has starred in many popular musicals - including Les Miserables, Cats and Cabaret. She's about to begin a UK tour - where her show will include many of the greatest musical hits of the past 20 years. She discusses her career, and the demands made on musical theatre performers. What does an artist see in an election campaign? Nicola Green, whose silkscreen prints reflecting on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign go on show today at the Walker Art Gallery, and photographer Simon Roberts, the official Artist for the UK's 2010 General Election, discuss their experiences of following politicians on the campaign trail. Producer Ellie Bury.

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Donald Sinden.Favourite track: Symphony No. 6 In F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher Luxury: His favourite picture in the Walker Art Gallery

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Donald Sinden. Favourite track: Symphony No. 6 In F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher Luxury: His favourite picture in the Walker Art Gallery